Politicians putting their foot in the mouth is nothing new. But, interestingly, one of Arizona’s top lawmakers, House Speaker Andy Biggs, recently found himself in hot water after speaking at an event not for what he said. It’s what he didn’t say. Specifically, what he didn’t say regarding calls by the head of the Oath Keepers to try and hang Senator John McCain. A number of eyebrows have been raised over this incident. But as we’ll see, for anyone that’s been watching the actions of the entire Arizona GOP state caucus, those eyebrows should have been raised a long time ago. And stay up.
The future of health care in societies subjected to the doctrine of “Austeria” may be seen with the appointment of doctrinaire neo-Nazi Makis “The Hammer” Voridis as Health Minister of Greece. Fascism is surging in a Europe subjected to German-mandated austerity, as evidenced by the recent EU Parliamentary elections. Much of the program highlights fascism marching under the deceptive banner of “freedom” and/or libertarianism. Bitcoin continues its march toward monopoly, with the mysterious Ghash.io controlling 51% of the market. Gun-wielding fascists supportive of “libertarian” (read “white-supremacist”) Ron Paul gunned down police in Las Vegas, while so called “sovereign citizens” shot up police in California. “Cliven Bundists” (supporters of Cliven Bundy) have declared themselves exempt from Bureau of Land Management regulations in Nevada, as the GOP ramps up another government shutdown to foil Obama’s climate change legislation. At the same time, the very high-tech giants that complained so loudly about Obama’s failure to protect individual privacy are surging ahead with programs and technology to obliterate that very consideration.
There was shootout last week between police officers in Louisiana and what appear to be seven individuals associated with the sovereign citizens movement. It was a tragic reminder of the recent spike in US political violence and extremism as well as a look at the ongoing evolution in extremist anti-government movements. The past is prologue and, in this case, it’s a violently stupid prologue.
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